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Dear community,
I'd like to request an "et al. or authors name" option (as a radio button for example) in the dialog box when you are adding a reference.
Sometimes I'd prefer to expose all authors' name, but other times I'd prefer to use "et al.".
I can't see any workaround to it and in styles cls file that i'm using, the option is only for listing all, i don't know even how to do a "count" workaround, as if authors < 2, list all then, if more than two authors, list with et. al.
Is there any alternative to this?
Thanks
I'd like to request an "et al. or authors name" option (as a radio button for example) in the dialog box when you are adding a reference.
Sometimes I'd prefer to expose all authors' name, but other times I'd prefer to use "et al.".
I can't see any workaround to it and in styles cls file that i'm using, the option is only for listing all, i don't know even how to do a "count" workaround, as if authors < 2, list all then, if more than two authors, list with et. al.
Is there any alternative to this?
Thanks
In CSL, the two relevant attributes are et-al-min="k" and et-al-use-first="i",
where k>i and the rule is:
"If an item has at least k authors, print the first i followed by et al." (and, correspondingly, if an item has less than k authors, print all of them).
Both options also have a -subsequent variant that only applies for citations (not in the bibliography) that allows you to treat items differently on first and subsequent citation.
The whole CSL specifications are available: https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html Not everything is easy to follow and we're happy to answer questions, but the et al section should be pretty clear.